Here are 40 innovative book-making ideas using recycled and green materials! More than just earth-friendly, theyre also beautiful, clever and witty, stitched with traditional binding techniques. Egg cartons, wood, beer cans and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters and discarded newspapers are transformed into pages. Create a boxed set of cereal box books, an exposed stitch sketchbook out of cardboard and remnants and even a faux leather journal made from teabags. In addition to how-to drawings, close-up detail photographs and simple stitch diagrams, a gallery of eco-books from an international roster of artists provides inspiration.

Buildings are the biggest polluters on the planet, responsible for a far greater proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions that get pumped into the atmosphere every year than cars, planes or factories. Just as we are urged to change our lifestyles to reduce our carbon footprint and consumption of water, there is a great deal we can do to convert our existing homes into greener, healthier places to live. Most homes, even those built relatively recently, are not decorated, designed, constructed or serviced with eco-friendliness in mind.

Small but perfectly formed, "The Little Book of Shocking Eco Facts" combines up-to-the-minute data about ecological issues sourced by two highly respected geographers, Mark Crundwell and Cameron Dunn, with outstanding graphic imagery created by the award-winning Barnbrook Design studio.

Featuring an extensive collection of full-color photographs, "150 Best Eco House Ideas" features eco-friendly house designs created by internationally renowned architects and designers who have achieved practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and tastes of their clients. 

'Ecohouses are not luxuries, but necessities, critical to the survival of the biosphere. This book will help you make the transition.' - George Monbiot, author and columnist

In "The Eco Lifestyle Handbook" you will learn more than 2000 ways to make choices that affect not only your own life but the planet as a whole. By making simple environmentally friendly changes in key areas of your life - home, office, garden, beauty, health, shopping and food - you can lead a more eco-friendly lifestyle and improve both your personal wellbeing and the quality of the planet.

In today's technologically dependent world we are all aware of the increasing damage we are doing to our environment, but the scale of the destruction seems so vast, we can often feel powerless to make any significant changes. Eco demonstrates how everyone can make a difference to the planet by incorporating environmental design, decoration, and strategies for living into their home.

Reusing household items and found objects doesn't only reduce your carbon footprint, it makes the garden unique and contemporary. Doubters should look at Garden Eco-Chic, a cool guide by Californian designer Matthew Levesque to creating decks, paths, pergolas, lighting and containers from such rejects as old keys (rain chains), discarded windows (hurricane lamps) and used shutters (arbours).

As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, over-fishing, clear-felled forests, loss of biodiversity, climate change, chemical pollution, and other environmental and health-related risks. This book is an analysis of a primary set of tools aimed at dealing with these risks: green labels and other eco-standards. 

Eco-Chic: The Fashion Paradox is a fascinating and pertinent examination of the relationship between fashion and environmental awareness. A new wave of sustainable shopping, affordable clothing, and ecological thinking has allowed eco-designers to create high-end, design-led collections rather than merely environmentally sympathetic garments.